Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martin, Dennis D.

Titel

Popular and Monastic Pastoral Issues in the Later Middle Ages

Ist Teil von

• Church history, 1987-09, Vol.56 (3), p.320-332

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A number of scholars have pointed recently to Ecclesiastes 9:1 as the epitome of medieval and late medieval spirituality: “No one knows whether he is worthy of God's love or hatred.”1 The quest for assurance of salvation constituted a major pastoral problem in the Middle Ages. It is no surprise, therefore, that catechetical handbooks as well as handbooks of spiritual theology offer signs by which one can gain some indication whether one is in the grace of God or not.